Unrated severityNVD Advisory· Published Mar 6, 2026· Updated Mar 10, 2026
CVE-2025-69649
CVE-2025-69649
Description
GNU Binutils thru 2.46 readelf contains a null pointer dereference vulnerability when processing a crafted ELF binary with malformed header fields. During relocation processing, an invalid or null section pointer may be passed into display_relocations(), resulting in a segmentation fault (SIGSEGV) and abrupt termination. No evidence of memory corruption beyond the null pointer dereference, nor any possibility of code execution, was observed.
Affected products
2- GNU Binutils/readelfdescription
Patches
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